The constant work of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP by its Spanish acronym) with the new generations seeks to educate people with a culture of recycling, without doing vocational training. This is done through the Recuperadores del Futuro movement (Recyclers of the Future), which functions in schools to make children aware of the importance of recycling.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- "We are currently present in all the educational centers. We work from the Eligio Fonseca Figueredo Elementary School, located at Kilometer Seven of the road to the municipality of Jobabo, to the Cándido González, in the community of Dormitorio," says Jorge Rivera Barbán, manager of the ERMP of the capital municipality.

"Although the economic conditions of the Company are not the best, and many recall what Raw Materials was and what it is now, we try to encourage the children who have stood out the most in the recovery actions that they carry out with so much interest. Sometimes, we look for a way to give them recognition or a verbal mention, so that the children know that they are doing well and that their performance is recognized.”

"The collaboration with the educational system, the ability to reach the schools and to be involved in the activities of the pioneer organization is based on established agreements, and the same happens with the mass organizations that offer their support from the communities. At home, the child looks for the useless doorknobs, boxes that are going to be thrown away, and all that could be very useful for us.”

It is always good to work with children because they bring home the knowledge and attitudes they have learned at school and try to involve their families in the recycling awareness they have acquired; at the same time, they become the recyclers of the future.